According to her official website, world No. 11 Ana Ivanovic has hired Dejan Petrovic as her new coach. The 36-year-old Petrovic was born in Australia and has previously worked with Novak Djokovic and Jelena Jankovic. Petkovic was the No. 1-ranked junior in Australia and went on to reach a ranking of 116 in the world on the ATP Tour in 2002. He currently owns a tennis academy in Serbia.

World No. 21 Alexandr Dolgopolov announced that he will miss the entire US Open Series and Davis Cup due to a knee injury that may require surgery. The Ukrainian, who lost to Tobias Kamke in the third round of the ATP 500 event in Hamburg this week, made the announcement on his official Instagram account Saturday. "I am really unhappy to announce that I injured my knee in Hamburg and I will probably need a surgery and will be out for 4-6 weeks," he wrote on on the photo-sharing site. "Disappointing,specially not playing the great event in Umag, the Us series and Davis cup play offs:((( hopefully il be back ASAP."

There isn’t a great deal to recap as Caroline Wozniacki double bagelled Belinda Bencic in just 44 minutes to wrap up first round action in Istanbul. I think there were a fair few people who gave Bencic a chance in this match, which makes the final scoreline all the more surprising. Wozniacki was absolutely brilliant on serve, hitting nine aces, winning 78% of first serve points and quashing all three break point opportunities that Bencic brought up on the Woz serve. Bencic played the big points poorly and didn’t win any points on her second serve throughout the entire match.

Nick Kyrgios has had himself quite the month. First he shocks the tennis world by beating No. 1 Rafael Nadal in his Wimbledon debut to advance to the quarterfinals, and now it seems he's pissed off Drake. In the third round at Wimbledon, the 19-year-old needed four sets to beat fellow ATP youngster Jiri Vesely and blamed his slow start -- he lost the first set -- on the fact that he walked out on court listening to Drake's mellow jams.

﻿With Wimbledon barely in the rear view mirror, there was plenty of action of the ATP and WTA last week. In all, five players took home titles, but Pablo Cuevas was the only first-time title winner last week. He defeated Joao Sousa 6-2, 6-1 to claim the title in Båstad. Cuevas entered the Swedish city ranked World No. 111, continuing a comeback from knee surgery that sidelined him for the entire 2012 season. ﻿

Wimbledon became the the highest paying tennis grand slam in the world, as they have announced an increase of almost 10% in totle prize money payouts. The winner of the Wimbledon 2014 will be taking home around £1.76 million GBP ($2.97 million USD). But the biggest increase in the payouts is in the earlier rounds. Below is the full fledged breakdown of prize money in all category and their respective rounds.

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